Federal charges expected to be filed today in DC reportedly would implicate his wife, former Alderman Sandi Jackson, resulting in tax fraud charges against her.

Sandi had been receiving a $5,000 per month check from the Jackson Jr campaign for consulting over the course of several years. CBS reports:

Jesse Jackson Jr. will plead guilty to one felony count of misuse of campaign funds and then let a federal judge determine his punishment, which according to the agreement could range from probation to five year in prison.

Jackson’s deal calls for him to repay hundreds of thousands of dollars spent for things like travel and meals with a mistress and a $40,000 men’s Rolex watch he bought for himself. Jackson’s resignation from Congress was also part of the deal.

But Jackson’s pleading guilty to using campaign funds for personal expenses could expose Sandi, his campaign manager, to tax-fraud charges.

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If he were a Republican, this would fall into the war against women category, right?

Partisan shots aside, this shows why the political system is broken. The temptation to steal and to peddle influence will never be absent in the human race. We need to reduce the opportunity to act on those temptations.

This is totally hilarious. Junior rats out his wife. What else can you expect from a party whose head pays men more than women? Protect his woman? Not if Junior can save his own skin. I hope the two of them get considerable jail time.

Anyone who thinks the Democrats will even notice this is in for a rude surprise. They will say “Well, those taxes, they’re complicated.” And, then, they will turn to talking about the entertainment news.

Pick at them a little, and you will get an admission that black Democrats don’t know how to comply with the law.

Great. Now let’s figure out how brother Yusef, a fresh-faced college grad whose only experience was playing football, managed to win a lucrative Budweiser distributorship in Illinois over dozens of better qualified businessmen.